As a Drupal Sandbox Project it is understood that the code is experimental and not yet ready for general use. I found the code to be relatively stable, but incomplete. Currently it only provides support for 3 of the 13 MWS APIs.

One of the top search engine hits is the Drupal Amazon module. Using a simple module name like Amazon is very ambiguous. Amazon is a lot of things. A quick inspection reveals the Drupal Amazon supports the Amazon Product Advertising API. This API is all about trying to help sell things that are already listed on Amazon,

Now that we had (lightly) covered the available Amazon marketplace web services it was time to delve into the Drupal world of Amazon.

This task still required a large amount of effort. As per previous posts adding the term Drupal to Google searches along with the term Amazon resulted in Drupal books for sale on Amazon. So I reversed my search technique: I went to Drupal and searched for Amazon modules.

This post is intended to provide a high level introduction to Amazon's Product Advertising API. Part of my initial confusion was that the Wikipedia page I first found described features that did not match the current Amazon's documentation that I found next. Wikipedia seemed to imply that the Product Advertising API provides vendor marketplace support. It does not.

Now that we have established a bit of an eCommerce Amazon marketplace background in the preceding posts, it is time to roll up our sleeves and try to dive into Amazon's automation APIs. I say try, because I originally found it very difficult to discover where to dive. My Google-Fu failed me.

A vendor wishing to sell products on Amazon needs to successfully execute a number of processes in a consistent manner. Earlier posts provided a high level overview of the generic sales transaction steps from both the buyer and the sellers perspective. We now want to provide a more in-depth look at the routine seller processes.

Amazon is well known in North America (and several other parts beyond our shores). Everybody understands that Amazon is one of the online places you go to buy things. Amazon also means a very different thing to computer geeks: AWS - Amazon Web Services. AWS is known for being a cloud computing service. Very different from the original online store, not shopping related at all. I mention this now because it will come up later. It should not, but it does. Sigh...